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    It is not the case that If Functionality fails for persisting objects, then the inference that y's only exact location is itself collapses, since the formal machinery underwriting the length-one chain result is not universally valid.

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    • 1.Location uniqueness may be grounded in spatiotemporal metaphysics independent of Functionalism's truth or falsity; the two issues are logically separable.
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    • 2.The length-one chain result could derive from other formal frameworks (mereology, modal logic) not requiring Functionalism; failure of one theory doesn't collapse the result.
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    • 3.Admitting Functionalism fails doesn't entail 'y only at itself' collapses—it may simply require relocated justification rather than the entire premise's abandonment.
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    • 1.Functionalism's success depends on explaining persistence without spatial redundancy; its failure undermines the theoretical framework supporting location uniqueness.
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    • 2.The length-one chain result assumes deterministic functional relations hold universally; when Functionalism fails, this universality assumption becomes questionable.
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    • 3.If objects persist functionally, their singular exact location follows from identity criteria; without Functionalism, alternative location-criteria become necessary.
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